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Human
Migration, Population on the Move

The
earliest inhabitants of the Earth had a luxury that no one has today
— they could move to where ever they wished. If they over hunted a region,
they could migrate. Moving to a new environ meant starting all over.
This also meant the place left behind could recover and repopulate the
hunted species or worn land. This is what native populations did in the
early phases of human history.

Today,
there is a migration of sorts in many areas, but this is a move to economic
opportunity and
not new resources. Agricultural-based populations have been
moving into larger global cities. This has created mega-cities and as
their populations build the demands for food, materials, and energy
accelerates. These people were once producers, now they are consumers.

The
earth can only bear so many consuming persons. Lands lost to erosion,
infertility, creeping deserts, deforestation, dwindling fresh water
sources, and all the other growing global pressures
force humanity into a tight cosmic corner. We can jump ship nor port
ourselves to another neighboring planet. Any suggestion that we move
the human species elsewhere has lost a measure of sanity. Scientists
have found difficulty in creating a self-sustaining model system to support
humans. The Biosphere project reveals how inadequate any support system
is beside the Earth itself. The cost to transport a sub-set of the human
community would deplete the earth for those who remained behind.

For
now, the conclusion to reach is ... we have no place to go but right
here. We are left with a reality of facing ourselves. Maybe that's the
point. If we had achieved a form of stewardship that 'inherits the earth'
and takes responsibility for ourselves in love, then what need would
there be for migration?

This
is just one of many panes in the WindowView. This is a fraction of the
process identified earlier within the section entitled 'Convergence.'
Keep exploring the view, visit our page titled 'Experience
WindowView' to see how global changes are part of a larger holistic
paradigm which is the reason behind assembling this cyber-place. Putting
the picture together helps to envision humanity's direction along the
dimension of time.

The importance to global change is in looking at how social, biological, and physical sciences all reveal data and signs for more ominous changes in the near future. This is change in every aspect of human and earthly affairs ... globally. The Window looks further to see change as a backdrop to a biblical timeline. Driving forces for change force us to ask the most important questions about our true origin, who we are, why we are here, and what the Scriptures tell us about the future. Change forces us to look deeper to face choice or crisis. Life is an opportunity to look for the answers.

For a general listing of books, visit the WindowView Book Page for: Science and Scripture .

Step Up To Life

Time spent looking ... through a window on life and choice ... brings the opportunity to see in a new light. The offer for you to Step Up To Life is presented on many of the web pages at WindowView. Without further explanation we offer you the steps here ... knowing that depending on what you have seen or may yet explore in the window ... these steps will be the most important of your life ...